How to Understand the Charges against Benjamin Netanyahu
And the threat they pose to Israeli democracy.
March 4, 2019
The Jewish Arabs Who Founded the Mossad
The mista’arvim and Israel’s Mizraḥi revival.
In the Israeli intelligence services, agents who work undercover in Arab areas are known as mista’arvim, “those who become like Arabs.” Matti Friedman describes the very first group of these, who began operating on the eve of the Jewish state’s independence, and what their experience says about the country more broadly:
March 4, 2019
The Jewish Arabs Who Founded the Mossad
The mista’arvim and Israel’s Mizraḥi revival.
Hamas, Which Destroys the Environment, Wins the Support of the American Green Party
Opposing Israel is high on its list of priorities.
Theodor Adorno and the Failure of “Prejudice” to Account for Anti-Semitism
Intersectionality, Frankfurt School style.
A Great Jewish Historian Tells the Story of an Unusual Hasidic Rabbi
Berishl Ba’al T’shuvah.